Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans are also worried about their visitors and have put in a check system that would make the FBI blush. Inside their building at 8 Beacon Street they had the entire seventh floor blocked into special rooms, one for each type of guest. Their elevator operator wore a large red, white, and blue button that announced "I Like Everybody...
Even the most prosperous poets, said prosperous Poet Ogden (Hard Lines) Nash, sometimes like to "make a little dough" on a sideline. Nash's sideline: guest expert on television panels. Said he: "TV is the biggest racket ever invented. I love it. Half an hour's fun a week-and they pay you for it ... Most of the mail I get is from eleven-year-old children who say 'I loved your book, David Copperfield, please send me your picture...
...producing the notoriously unproducible Marshal Joffre. The hero of the Marne had secretly agreed to be taken prisoner, and Elsa had him "captured" by a National Guard cavalry escort. She went on in triumph to the Peace Conference and captured Arthur Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, as her dinner guest at the Ritz. Elsa was firmly launched as the hostess who combined a touch of Mme. de Recamier with the flair of P. T. Barnum...
...Johnston, who has been president of the Palace Hotel Co. since 1939, says it has been a consistent moneymaker. But profits have diminished in recent years, from $227,000 net in 1948 to $66,000 last year. By giving the Palace the benefit of its advertising and guest-referral system, Sheraton thinks it can improve profits without harming its traditions...
...does Mrs. Johnston, who will stay there as a guest several months each year. But, she warned, she will leave "if there's any monkey business...